Dozens of world-renowned geologists agree that the eruption of boiling mud in Porong is the result of a botched borehole excavation. For years, there have been disputes about who should pay damages ...

Energi Mega Persada subsidiary Lapindo Brantas has paid 42.7 billion rupiah ($4.84 million), or one fifth, of the compensation owed to eight companies affected by the mud still gushing from near its ...

PARIS (AFP) – Scientists on Sunday sparked a fresh debate over what triggered Indonesia's Lusi mud volcano, still spewing truckloads of slime more than seven years after it leapt catastrophically into ...

Energi Mega Persada (EMP) is awaiting regulatory approval to finalise the $2 sell-off of wholly-owned subsidiary Lapindo Brantas as the costs associated with the mud flow continue to hit its finances ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For many years the Indonesian coastal town of Sidoarjo has been best known for its shrimp hatcheries and the ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Executive Director of Energy Watch Ferdinand Hutahaean said that the government should include PT Lapindo Brantas Incorporation in the black list of the country’s oil and gas ...

Foul-smelling mud oozing from an exploratory oil well in Indonesia has forced the partial closure of key toll road for the fifth time this month, officials said on Wednesday. The mudflow is part of an ...

While the Lusi mud volcano in Indonesia continues to spew millions of litres of mud every day, the debate over who – or what – was responsible for the eruption is heating up. At an international ...

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The event is a smaller version of the Lapindo-Brantas mud flow. At least four people were injured, and scores of buffaloes are missing. What happened is known as a mud volcano, geologist explains, ...